The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 34

‘Are you not ashamed, girl, to waste your time over a man who is as poor as a rat, when there are a dozen more who would be only too happy to buy you rings of silver, if you would let them?’

Who acts: you, man, dozen · What happens: not be, waste, be, buy, let · To what, where: rings, you

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, man, dozen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 ashamed	punct
2	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ashamed	cop
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 ashamed	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 ashamed	advmod
5	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 girl	punct
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ashamed	vocative
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 waste	punct
9	to	to	PART	_	10 waste	mark
10	waste	waste	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 ashamed	parataxis
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 time	nmod:poss
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 waste	obj
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 man	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 waste	obl
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 poor	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 poor	cop
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 poor	advmod
19	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	acl:relcl
20	as	as	ADP	_	22 rat	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 rat	det
22	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 poor	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 are	punct
24	when	when	SCONJ	_	26 are	mark
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 are	expl
26	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 waste	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 dozen	det
28	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 are	nsubj
29	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 dozen	conj
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 happy	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 happy	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 happy	cop
33	only	only	ADV	_	35 happy	advmod
34	too	too	ADV	_	35 happy	advmod
35	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 more	parataxis
36	to	to	PART	_	37 buy	mark
37	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 happy	xcomp
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 buy	iobj
39	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 buy	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 silver	case
41	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 rings	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 let	punct
43	if	if	SCONJ	_	46 let	mark
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 let	nsubj
45	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 let	aux
46	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 are	parataxis
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 let	obj
48	?	?	PUNCT	_	46 let	punct
49	’	'	PUNCT	_	46 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	you					girl vocative; ashamed property	tree rules
2	waste	to-infinitive					time	over a man	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	a man					as a rat; poor property	tree rules
4	be	present	a dozen			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	would						happy property	tree rules
6	buy	to-infinitive		rings of silver	you				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary ring=Theme
7	let a condition, not said to happen	would	you	rings = ring					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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